discord.js - Imagine an app•5mo ago

Collections not collecting channel messages

I am using the code sample code from basic message collector, but am struggling to get it to work at all. It seems no matter what I try, it always collects 0. I have added the following to my client: - GatewayIntentBits.Guilds, - GatewayIntentBits.GuildMessages, - GatewayIntentBits.MessageContent I have Message Content Intent turned on in discord developer as well. I have it running in a slash command. After I execute the command, I then type discord, but in the console, it just shows 0. No amount of searching (last few hours) has helped at all. I know I am missing something, but this isn't the first time I am scouring d.js documentation for more context than it gives when it comes to examples. The code I have inside of the slash command I made just for testing.

await interaction.reply({
    content: `Executing command`,
    withResponse: true,
});
const collectorFilter = (m: Message) => m.content.includes("discord");
const channel = interaction.channel as TextChannel;
const collector = channel.createMessageCollector({
    filter: collectorFilter,
    time: 5_000,
    max: 1,
});

collector.on("collect", (m) => {
    console.log(`Collected ${m.content}`);
});

collector.on("end", (collected) => {
    console.log(`Collected ${collected.size} items`);
});

await interaction.reply({
    content: `Executing command`,
    withResponse: true,
});
const collectorFilter = (m: Message) => m.content.includes("discord");
const channel = interaction.channel as TextChannel;
const collector = channel.createMessageCollector({
    filter: collectorFilter,
    time: 5_000,
    max: 1,
});

collector.on("collect", (m) => {
    console.log(`Collected ${m.content}`);
});

collector.on("end", (collected) => {
    console.log(`Collected ${collected.size} items`);
});

I am using discord.js@14.21.0 and node v24.4.0

20 Replies

d.js toolkit•5mo ago

edocsil•5mo ago

Just to confirm: Your bot can view the channel?

gnpOP•5mo ago

Yes, it has admin privileges as well and I have a different command that has it send messages in that channel.

treble/luna•5mo ago

And you are sending that message within 5 seconds?

gnpOP•5mo ago

Yes, I set those on purpose for the sake of testing.

edocsil•5mo ago

FWIW your code works on my machine, so it's not that

treble/luna•5mo ago

if you listen to the messageCreate event, does that fire

gnpOP•5mo ago

Hmm, then that makes me think there's something with the bot, but if it has admin privileges and Message Content Intent, then I guess it's something else I am not seeing. Can you elaborate?

treble/luna•5mo ago

Listen to the messageCreate event to see if that fires

gnpOP•5mo ago

What I meant by elaborating is how would I do that? I don't see a messageCreate event in the documentation.

d.js docs•5mo ago

:event: (event) Client#messageCreate discord.js@14.21.0 Emitted whenever a message is created.

gnpOP•5mo ago

How do I go about using this correctly? And what would it help with in my case?

Samtino•5mo ago

The messageCreate event is the same endpoint that createMessageCollector listens to, just you can keep it open all the time...they're checking if your bot is receiving ANY messageCreate events

treble/luna•5mo ago

To check if that event fires If it does, the issue is with your collector If it doesnt, its something else

gnpOP•5mo ago

I guess it's the implementation of this messageCreate that I am unfamiliar with. Like, how to create it. I am assuming it's similar to interactionCreate? The guide as far as I can tell, goes over interactionCreate, but I haven't come across messageCreate.

treble/luna•5mo ago

its just another event you listen like it just like you would listen to any other event on the client and it'll fire with a Message

gnpOP•5mo ago

Welp, found the problem. I was adding intents to the client in interactionCreate file and not the index one, which I just realized was the client I needed to add the intents to. Which makes sense now. Just didn't catch that at first. Sorry for wasting everyone's time. It works as expected.

treble/luna•5mo ago

you should not even need to create a client there but good to know you found the issue

gnpOP•5mo ago

Well, I went by the documentation, but I agree with you. I'm just going to change that one and export the client from index into interactionCreate instead

d.js toolkit•5mo ago

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